Personally, I’ve never had a bad DMV experience, though. I don’t know if there are some states with horrible, messed-up DMV services, or if it’s simply a matter of a handful of people having a few bad experiences and then the narrative created by those experiences being reinforced by selection bias of the 5% of people who have a bad experience.

I’ve seen people go into the DMV without having any of the proper documentation on hand, not understanding why they need all of that stuff, and being outraged at all of the supposed bureaucratic mess. That’s their fault, though. I’ve always had all of my documentation straightened out, so I’ve always been whisked right through the system with no snags.

I have experienced both. Small town DMV’s tend to be the best, but the local one here in Colorado Springs has had a major overhaul. It really was a rundown fleabag of a place, with all the employees acting like undead sloths. Then a new location opened up with a better service system and it feels more like standing in line for a movie theater. Vastly better.

The ones here in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill (don’t ask)) in North Carolina have been great for decades. The ones out in rural North Carolina tend to be a lot crappier … but then North Carolina is a bit of a shit-hole in general, once you get outside of a major urban area. The mountains of North Carolina have one of the highest concentrations of snake-handling, Pentecostal cults in the US.

I like this series very much and have no criticisms of either the art or the scripting. My comment is about the comments.
The comments section of this strip is often so entertaining and also usually clears up things about the strip which dim-witted readers such as myself would not otherwise appreciate. In other words, it makes the strip a lot better.
But there are two recurring problems with the comments and some of the recurring commenters.
First, it is a shame that robot comment generators victimize this website with ads pretending to be comments and the like.
Second, sometimes a very few readers hijack the comments section to engage in “debates” or conversations with other similarly long-winded (figuratively speaking) readers. Often these debates/conversations become not really comments about the stories but rather egotistical flaunting of personal axes to grind.
These sorts of comments make it difficult to impossible for me to follow the actual comments which are not trying to push some religious or political or commercial agenda. I know that this only affects me because I am somehow just not as cool as the other readers but I wish it would stop.